Mieczyslaw Quotes & Sayings

The spirit of the age is not synonymous with what the public likes. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun

I'm very ambitious. I live in reality but I have dreams I want to fulfill - I want to be a director, and I've already started my own production company. But I also have a measure of success that I keep to myself. It's something very personal to me. — Alex Pettyfer

The term of life of a dynasty does not normally exceed three generations. For in the first generation are still preserved the characteristic features of rough, uncivilized rural life, such as hard conditions of life, courage, ferocity, and partnership in authority. Therefore the strength of the 'Asabiya is maintained ... — Ibn Khaldun

I don't have time to read popular fiction. I'm too busy with work.' Secretaries, he thought acidly, read that junk, at home in bed at night. It stimulates them. Instead of the real thing. Which they're afraid of. But of course really crave. — Philip K. Dick

The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun

Poetry, in the entire course of its development, has always been trying to capture meanings and problems which are still obscure and dormant. Poetry tries to awaken them with a kiss, wherever they may be: in the air, in things, in human beings. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun

There's this notion out there - and it's a categorically false notion - that the only business model in the service industry is the minimum-wage business model. I say phooey to that. You go to a Costco store, and you see people there who've been working there for years and years. They're making $15, $20 an hour, plus health benefits. — Thomas Perez

The history of the creative progress of individual artists shows that, along with their spiritual growth and the increasing complexity of their inner life, their forms of expression become more complex. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun

In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening circle of readers. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun

Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun

When you get to be a 45-year-old man, you start to realize: 'I know who I am, and I know who I'm not. I know my shortcomings, I know my strengths; maybe some of my shortcomings are my strengths.' You start to face yourself as you truly are. — Mark Ruffalo

The age of sages is past; the age of specialists has come. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun

Tradition remains alive only when we struggle with it. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun

The public, regardless of its social origin, likes, above all, that which is easily accessible. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun

Environment grinds us, forces us to adjust, and
consciously or not
kills our most precious possession: that something which enables us to speak with ourselves and with God. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun

You know, if you want to meet a lot of Iraqi leaders, the best places are the hotels in Amman or in London. In general the government here is amazingly unpopular. — Patrick Cockburn

From laboratories employing complex apparatus, poetry often emerges into the outside world after a long lapse of time, just as some scientific discoveries become common property only after they have entered the blood stream of the generations. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution. — Walter Raleigh

Solitude is an essential element of poetry. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun

The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun

Talent
that is to say, the ability to see the world in a unique way
matures and grows in isolation. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun

We want books that are written for those of us who doubt everything, who cry over the least little thing, who are startled by the slightest noise. — Laurence Cosse

It is a grave error for historians of literature to interpret the national spirit of the age in an oversimplified manner, ignoring the complexity of various cultural and life processes. Instead of using their imagination, they try to read the future by observing the hands of a clock which is still busy measuring the past. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun